Paddy Costello

November/December 2017

Volume 42 Number 6

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Alister McIntosh’s ‘best’ diplomat

Ken Ross argues that that Paddy Costello was never a Soviet agent, as often alleged, but was in fact one of New Zealand’s most brilliant foreign service officials.

Esprit de contradiction

Rita Ricketts reviews MI5’s evolving case against Costello, as revealed in his recently released file in the British archives.

The MI5 verdict

Ian McGibbon outlines what Paddy Costello’s recently opened MI5 file indicates about why British counter-espionage concluded that he was a Soviet agent.

A modern French Revolution

Emma Nichols discusses the implications of Emmanuel Macron’s ascent to power in France.

New Zealand’s strategic context: one or many scenarios?

Stephen Hoadley sketches the six strategic scenarios that are likely to challenge New Zealand in the coming years.

Overseeing New Zealand’s modern military operations

Rhys Ball and Wil Hoverd discuss the implications for democracy and national security of the deployment of special operations forces.

Adjusting to political earthquakes

Terence O’Brien provides a New Zealand view of the current geopolitical landscape.

BOOKS

Dalia F. Fahmy and Daanish Faruqi (eds): Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberism: Illiberal Intelligenstia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (William Shepard).

Lynne Olson: Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood that Helped Turn the Tide of War (Anthony Smith).

Antje Missbach: Troubled Transit, Asylum Seekers Stuck in Indonesia (Andrew Butcher).

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Alister McIntosh’s ‘best’ diplomat

Ken Ross argues that that Paddy Costello was never a Soviet agent, as often alleged, but was in fact one of New Zealand’s most brilliant foreign service officials.

Esprit de contradiction

Rita Ricketts reviews MI5’s evolving case against Costello, as revealed in his recently released file in the British archives.

The MI5 verdict

Ian McGibbon outlines what Paddy Costello’s recently opened MI5 file indicates about why British counter-espionage concluded that he was a Soviet agent.

A modern French Revolution

Emma Nichols discusses the implications of Emmanuel Macron’s ascent to power in France.

New Zealand’s strategic context: one or many scenarios?

Stephen Hoadley sketches the six strategic scenarios that are likely to challenge New Zealand in the coming years.

Overseeing New Zealand’s modern military operations

Rhys Ball and Wil Hoverd discuss the implications for democracy and national security of the deployment of special operations forces.

Adjusting to political earthquakes

Terence O’Brien provides a New Zealand view of the current geopolitical landscape.

BOOKS

Dalia F. Fahmy and Daanish Faruqi (eds): Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberism: Illiberal Intelligenstia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (William Shepard).

Lynne Olson: Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood that Helped Turn the Tide of War (Anthony Smith).

Antje Missbach: Troubled Transit, Asylum Seekers Stuck in Indonesia (Andrew Butcher).

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